Explore the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, its key objectives, legal provisions, and recent amendments. Learn how this ...

New classification could trigger urgent protection as three species face threat. LONDON -- Giraffes, long considered a single species, have now been recognized as four genetically distinct species in ...

A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop Trump’s Extinction Plan.” The sign-carrying Arctic creature—actually an ...

New Jersey has reclassified 30 wildlife species found in the state as endangered or threatened, environmental officials announced this week. The new additions to New Jersey’s endangered species list ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today issued a report identifying 10 endangered animals at risk from the Trump administration’s proposal to strip nearly all habitat protections from ...

The Trump administration is proposing to significantly limit the Endangered Species Act's power to preserve crucial habitats by changing the definition of one word: harm. On Wednesday, the ...

The Fort Worth Zoo welcomed two gharial crocodile hatchlings, a critically endangered reptile. The zoo, located in Texas, is the only North American institute to successfully hatch multiple of the ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

One long-tailed lizard is making an appearance after more than 50 years since its last sighting.

Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...